Yes I know its an app, but its a damn good one. I have tried many of the launchers on the Play store and none compare to this. Very, very smooth and lightning fast. Very configurable. An excellent app and a great replacement for that horrid TouchWiz.

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I agree. I can't understand why Samsung can't just simply leave the UI alone and not use that horrid TouchWiz

They call it differentiation, we call it destroying the experience.

What makes me laugh is that people buy a phone with a proprietary UI overlay and then go to great lengths to remove it or work around it. Not exactly sending the right message to the manufacturers to make them stop doing this crap as their formula is clearly working (and people are still buying the phone).

Do the right thing, vote with your feet and buy a Nexus device with a pure version of the OS - and then the manufacturers will get the message and stop destroying an otherwise very good UI with their customisations.

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Do the right thing, vote with your feet and buy a Nexus device with a pure version of the OS - and then the manufacturers will get the message and stop destroying an otherwise very good UI with their customisations.

Disagree. I much prefer my S2 over the equivalent nexus. Just rom it and job done.

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Clearly you don't disagree - because if you did you'd run a stock TouchWiz experience that Samsung supplies.

But its just like Jailbreaking. We (people who mod our phones and remove the default launcher) are an extremely small percentage of the market. Buying a Nexus is NOT the answer for most, I for one didn't get one due to it basically copying the iPhone with its latest Nexus 4. (Glass back, no removable battery, expandable storage and no LTE support?) No thank you.

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But its just like Jailbreaking. We (people who mod our phones and remove the default launcher) are an extremely small percentage of the market. Buying a Nexus is NOT the answer for most, I for one didn't get one due to it basically copying the iPhone with its latest Nexus 4. (Glass back, no removable battery, expandable storage and no LTE support?) No thank you.

True, but I still got a Nexus because the value can't be beat. $299 for an off contract phone, with a quad core processor (overkill) and 2 GB of RAM? You bet I want a piece of that action.

I'm using T-mobile, so the Nexus not have formal LTE support (though LTE can be enabled, probably destroys battery life though) isn't a big deal to me since T-mo doesn't have LTE, but does support HSPA+42. I currently have an HTC One S, so a non-removable battery and non-expandable storage has yet to bother me. I've only used 2 gigs of space, no need for a 32 GB microSD over here :p

Back to the OP, I've been using Holo Launcher HD on my HTC One S since it was released.. love it!

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+Fahim S. 912

True, but I still got a Nexus because the value can't be beat. $299 for an off contract phone, with a quad core processor (overkill) and 2 GB of RAM? You bet I want a piece of that action.

I'm using T-mobile, so the Nexus not have formal LTE support (though LTE can be enabled, probably destroys battery life though) isn't a big deal to me since T-mo doesn't have LTE, but does support HSPA+42. I currently have an HTC One S, so a non-removable battery and non-expandable storage has yet to bother me. I've only used 2 gigs of space, no need for a 32 GB microSD over here :p

Back to the OP, I've been using Holo Launcher HD on my HTC One S since it was released.. love it!

My point was totally missed - the more people buying handsets with a stock Android experience, ignoring those with a customised experience, the more manufacturers will be encouraged that this isn't positive differentiation and offer a stock Android experience. I wasn't suggesting that the Nexus was the only decent Android phone out there, but it is the only one that offers a stock Android experience. I totally get that the Nexus range isn't the answer for everyone.

Never going to happen though - but would mean more handsets would get timely upgrades to new versions of Android too...

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I just recently flashed to CM10 on my SGS1, and it's awesome, however, I will admit, there are times when I miss TW. But now that I've learned the included holo launcher with CM10, there's no way I'd go back personally, but that's just me. I'm sure there are better launchers than the one included in CM10, but it works for me pretty well, and I don't have too many problems with it.